[ANN] XMLBeans 1.0 GA w/ Source

["Carl Sjogreen" <Carl.Sjogreen@bea.com>]

I'm pleased to announce the GA release of BEA's XMLBeans technology is
now available at:
http://dev2dev.bea.com/technologies/xmlbeans/index.jsp.

What is XMLBeans?

At a high level XMLBeans is an XML-Java binding tool that uses XML
Schema as a basis for generating Java classes that you can use to easily
access XML instance data in a natural manner in your Java programs. It
was designed to provide both easy access to XML information via
convenient Java classes as well as complete access to the underlying
XML, combining the best of low-level APIs that provide full access with
the convenience of Java binding. 

There are several factors that set XMLBeans apart from any other
XML-Java binding alternatives: 

XML Schema Compliance - XMLBeans has achieved extremely high schema
compliance and is able to compile even the most complex schemas.  This
is critical when adopting an XML-Java binding framework since you may
received schemas that are out of your control.

Access to the full underlying XML Infoset - The XML Cursor API allows
you to have a lower level, DOM-like access to the underlying XML
Infoset. You can get a "cursor" at any point while using the strongly
typed generated XMLBeans and begin navigating the underlying XML
instance. This is important if you need to work with aspects of XML that
do not translate well to Java, for example the order of elements, or
perhaps an "any" that you need to work with in an untyped manner.

Access to the schema type system - In some situations when working with
XMLBeans you may need to get access to the underlying schema type
system. For example, perhaps you want to show the different possible
enumerations for a particular attribute. The XMLBeans schema API allows
you to walk through the schema type system giving you full access to a
Java object representation of the XML Schema that was compiled to
generate the XMLBeans classes.

Speed - XMLBeans is optimized for performance at many levels. For
example, XMLBeans lazily constructs objects from XML, so that you do not
have the performance overhead of object creation when you only access
portions of an XML document. Several Fortune 500 customers have adopted
XMLBeans based on speed alone. 


In advance of moving this technology to an open source community, we've
made XMLBeans available under an Apache-style license that allows for
unrestricted use of the technology.  We've also made the full source
code available online as part of this download so you can see how it
works, debug into it, suggest changes or enhancements, etc.

Please send any comments my way.

	-Carl

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Carl Sjogreen
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WebLogic Workshop
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